Elk Hunting Links & Colorado Drawing Information

Here are a few useful elk hunting links and dates to remember to help you get ready for a Colorado elk hunting trip.

New for 2018 Changes With New Purchasing System
Due to the transition to our new integrated Parks and Wildlife purchasing system, customers are encouraged to get into the new system and look up your existing account – or set up a new account for new customers, way BEFORE deadlines.
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Existing hunters MUST LOOK UP their previous CPW account and set up their profile in the new purchasing system BEFORE APPLYING​.

If you’ve purchased a hunting or fishing license from CPW before, you’ll have an account, but not a username or password. You’ll need to look up your existing CPW record with your Customer Identification number (CID) — printed on a previous license — birthdate and a unique identifier (e.g. a driver’s license or passport). Please find your existing account, so your preference point(s) and draw history will transfer into the new system. DON’T CREATE A NEW ACCOUNT.

This is a step by step guide you can view or print to get you through the application process. (Click below link)

▶ LICENSING SYSTEM CHANGES: CPW transitioned to an integrated licensing, pass and reservation system in Jan. 2018.

ALL customers, new and existing, need to have a UNIQUE EMAIL ADDRESS and PASSWORD to create an online profile in the new system. See the guide and how-to video online at: cpw.state.co.us/CPWshop

▶ LICENSE APPLICATIONS ARE NOW PAPERLESS: All license applications, for all species, must now be completed online using the integrated system, cpw.state.co.us/CPWshop, or by phone at 1-800-244-5613. Paper applications are no longer available.

▶ LICENSE FEES NO LONGER DUE AT THE TIME YOU SUBMIT YOUR DRAW APPLICATION: Instead of paying all of the fees up front when applying, you will now ONLY pay the $3 application processing fee, per species. If you are 18–64, you will need a 2018 Habitat Stamp ($10); one will be automatically added to your application if you haven’t purchased one already. You will be charged the license price and Wildlife Education and Search-and-Rescue fees ONLY if you draw a license. The preference point fee will still be charged if you are unsuccessful in the draw and do not meet the exemption criteria (see pages 2 and 18 in brochure). You’ll need to enter credit card information in your account, to be kept on file for draw license and preference point payments. See page 16, APPLICATIONS & PREFERENCE POINTS, for more information. Look for instructions on how to create your customer profile and apply for the draw on the insert in this brochure, or on our website: cpw.state.co.us/CPWshop

Preference Point Fees Information

▶ HOW IT WORKS. If you do not hold an active 2017 annual* or biggame license, or do not receive a license through the draw for the species, you will be charged $40 PER SPECIES (for deer, elk, pronghorn and bear), for which you get a preference point. This fee applies to residents and nonresidents. However, residents getting deer or pronghorn preference points will be charged only $30 for each of those. For example: If a nonresident (who isn’t exempt from the fee) receives a point for all four species, they will be charged $160. A resident would be charged $140.

▶ HOW TO AVOID IT. If you don’t want to pay the fee, you have until March 31, 2018, to purchase a 2017 annual fishing, annual small game, annual resident combination fishing and small game, or resident senior fishing license. Customers are also exempt if they
held any big game license the previous year, or draw a license of the same species as which they would be charged the point in the current year. * ANNUAL LICENSES INCLUDE: annual fishing, annual small game, annual resident combination fishing and small game, or resident senior fishing license. Any returned, refunded or surrendered licenses do not qualify.

The demo app is the full-version with a couple of restrictions. You cannot add/modify/edit the demo guns/loads or add any new guns/loads. You can search the ammo/bullet database but cannot apply the details to any load. Also, there is no longer a time restriction in the demo app.

I have the full-version of Shoot & use it almost any time I shoot or sight in one of my guns.